Favstar.fm

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Update: Twitter wanted me to mention that Sitestreams is a beta product.

Favstar uses a technology from Twitter called Sitestreams to collect favorites and retweets.  When it’s working, it works very well, and favs and retweets for hundreds of thousands of users are delivered in real-time.

Unfortunately over the last 24 hours, Twitter had an interruption to their @sitestreams system that Favstar uses to collect favs and retweets.  For the worst 12 hours of it, no favs or retweets were collected via this system.  

Retweets for users with bonus features will be caught up.  Unfortunately Twitter does not provide an accesible way to catch up on bulk missed Favorites, and the method of collecting missed retweets is too resource intensive to be able to do it for everyone.

We hope that Twitter’s @sitestream product won’t suffer another outage this bad, and will shortly put a new process in place to prevent retweets from being missed in the future.

Thanks for your patience and understanding with Favstar over this difficult period.

@favstar

finerios:

If you hold the Favorite button in Tweetbot, you can assign it a Tweet of the Day award at Favstar, a great service for finding and sharing the best of Twitter, as well as checking who favorites and RTs your tweets.

Favstar.fm is looking for a designer to help with several mini-projects over the coming months.  We’re aiming to retain someone for 15 hours a month for 4 months, with a high chance of extension.

You’ll collaborate on concepts, work on the wireframes, produce high fidelity prototypes in photoshop, and cut the designs into html and css.  The projects will be small and discrete, with each one fitting into the time available for the month.

As well being able to create a nice looking visual design, you’ll have a good interaction design sense.  You’ll be able to iterate quickly, have good initiative and self management skills, and a knack for problem solving.  

Favstar’s website has both desktop and mobile web views, with most of the UI shared across both. You’ll understand the intricacies of designing for a touch-based mobile device, and will own an iPhone or Android phone.

We’re looking for reliability from someone who communicates well, and is used to working remotely over Skype and email.  You can be based anywhere, but must be able to work in the Pacific timezone daytime hours.

If you’re interested, please email jobs@favstar, and include:

• A short self-introduction and tell us how you heard about this job.
• A link to your portfolio or sites you’ve worked on - tell us your favorites and why you enjoyed working on them.
• Your twitter username
• Your hourly rate and when you’d be able to start
• It’s a bonus if you have illustration or Ruby on Rails skills, but not a requirement.

Cada semana me avisan de alguien que copia los tuits de otra persona sin darle crédito. A veces es un neófito en Twitter con 10 seguidores que de veras no entiende que eso está mal, otras veces son usuarios con más de 100, 000 seguidores que a sabiendas roban buenos tuits para ser retuiteados y obtener nuevos seguidores.

Muchos usuarios de Favstar pasan tiempo puliendo sus tuits y su personaje, y han logrado hacer de ello un arte. Ver robados sus tuits es frustrante en extremo, y si no saben qué hacer pueden sentirse desamparados.

Twitter no lo dice explícitamente, pero puede suprimir la cuenta de un plagiario si se sigue el procedimiento correcto. Este requiere que la persona objeto de plagio siga algunos pasos y tenga paciencia mientras la demanda sigue su curso en el sistema de Twitter.

Es importante que la persona plagiada sea la que siga el proceso. No reportes a un plagiario si no están copiando TUS twitts. En cambio, informa la persona que está siendo plagiada sobre el procedimiento que debe seguir.

Si alguien está copiando tus twitts sin darte crédito:

• Confirma que los tuits que te han copiado sean originales. Búscalos en Google: si los encuentras con fecha anterior a la de los tuyos, no son originales y olvida el asunto.
  
  
• Si los tuits son originales, pide públicamente al plagiario que cese de copiarte. Si parece un neófito en Twitter, dale el beneficio de la duda y explícale por qué no está bien
  
  
• Si persiste una vez que le has pedido que pare, notifica claramente por escrito tu caso a Twitter. Usa esta forma: https://support.twitter.com/forms/general y en el abanico de asuntos escoge “Mi asunto no está en la lista”. Explica lo que ocurre y no dejes de incluir enlaces a tus tuits originales; a las copias del plagiario; al tuit en que le pides que cese de copiarte; y a los originales y las copias aparecidos DESPUÉS del tuit en que le pediste que dejara de hacerlo. Explica que ya has buscado en Google los tuits y que son originales, y que has notificado al plagiario que deje de hacerlo y no lo ha hecho.
  
  
• Twitter tomará cierto tiempo para procesar la información. Pueden ser una o dos semanas. Si el plagiario no ha borrado los tuits, lo normal es que Twitter le advierta que cese, y te avise que lo ha hecho.
  
  
• Una vez que Twitter ha hecho una advertencia al plagiario, si este insiste, tendrás que actualizar la notificación, aclarando que no ha cesado en su proceder e incluyendo los enlaces a un tuit original tuyo y a la copia publicada por el plagiario DESPUÉS de la advertencia de Twitter.
  
  
• Twitter se tomará un tiempo para procesar esto: normalmente, unos cuantos días. En este punto, si el plagiario ha reincidido después de que Twitter le advirtiera de no hacerlo, lo más probable es que le sea suprimida la cuenta. Nunca he visto que el proceso, llegado a este punto, fracase.

Ojala nunca te asalte un plagiario y, si te ocurre, esto te sirva de guía para lidiar con ello.

Favstar now gives you the choice if you want to see NSFW tweets or not.  Visit your settings page if you’d like to see NSFW tweets, and look for the checkbox at the bottom.

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I’m cautiously optimistic that I’ve fixed the 502 Bad Gateway’s.  Please do let me know (via Twitter) if you see one over the next couple of days.

Over the last couple of weeks, Favstar has missed deleting some tweets that users have deleted on Twitter, and has sometimes missed collecting a retweet or favorite.

It’s become my top priority to get this resolved, and I’d like to share a little more detail about what’s going on, and what’s being done about it.

The way that Favstar receives information from Twitter regarding deleted tweets is via a new product from Twitter called Sitestreams. Sitestreams allow Twitter to push Favstar signals that tell Favstar when a tweet is deleted, or a tweet is retweeted.  

Until about 2 weeks ago, Favstar has been working fantastically well with very good reliability.  Over the last 2 weeks, it hasn’t been working as well as it has previously.

Unfortunately there’s a large number of working parts involved, so it’s proven difficult to track down what’s going wrong.  

I’ve been working with engineers both at Twitter, Softlayer (who host Favstar’s servers and networking infrastructure), and reviewing Favstar’s internal systems to improve logging to determine what’s going wrong.  A few links in the chain have been identified as potential failure points, and all three parties are working on improving the reliability.  I’m not certain how long it’s going to take, but I expect in the next week or two the problems will be resolved, and the service will be more reliable again.

In the mean time, if you have deleted a tweet and it remains on Favstar, feel free to DM me a link to it on Favstar and I’ll remove it for you.  Please be aware that I won’t always be able to do this immediately, but I will get to it.  

Thanks for your patience with this issue.  

Tim
@favstar

Something’s happened with Favstar not correctly deleting tweets that are deleted from Twitter.  I’ve added some instrumentation to figure out what’s going on.  

If after reading this, you delete a new tweet from Twitter, and it’s not removed from Favstar, and the ID is a bigger number than 80692683324145665, please let me know.

For tweets that don’t get correctly removed, via a DM or mention on Twitter, please send @favstar:

• a link to the tweet on Favstar, 
• let me know when you deleted it, 
• which app you used to delete it, 
• how many favs/RTs Favstar was showing when you did delete it.

Hopefully we can get this solved.